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Mike
I think there is _huge_ value in your bundle project... I've worked a lot with Parsley and
have to say that in some circumstances IoC can exacerbate problems with class loading in Flash.
Having a mechanism to manage runtime assets is a natural next step (IMO) in the whole module
/ marshal plan saga.
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Rick Winscot
On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Michael Schmalle wrote:
> Yeah what he said.
>
> And in older versions I was using a link report as a manifest that the
> bundle service would scan to find out if it needed to actually active
> the bundle, IE load the classes.
>
> The is straight from Eclipse in an environment of plugins that could
> easily have collisions and version number conflicts.
>
> I only wanted to start this adventure if other people knew where I was
> coming from, having to explain why you would want to create a bundle
> registry and extension registry is beyond the scope of having to
> convince people.
>
> Either you have worked with a system like this or have used things
> such as Parsley or something which I haven't used.
>
> The purpose of this was to see if any one was interested in a
> standardization that went along with some of the OSGi standards and
> left out application frameworks.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Quoting Rick Winscot <rick.winscot@gmail.com (mailto:rick.winscot@gmail.com)>:
>
> > What is a registry system good for? Consider this... an application
> > has loaded two modules and a request is made via reflection for
> > class "Foo" ( think 'Class.forName()' in Java ).
> >
> > Module A: contains class Foo
> >
> > package plugins {
> >
> > public class Foo() {
> >
> > public function get bar1():String { return "bar1"; }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Module B: contains class Foo
> >
> > package plugins {
> >
> > public class Foo() {
> >
> > public function get bar2():String { return "bar2"; }
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > Which gets loaded? Which one gets executed when instantiated? In
> > Flash / Flex this is going to be a problem... if each of these
> > modules is part of a 'bundle' the problem is solved.
> >
> > --
> > Rick Winscot
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Web DoubleFx wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I used to build multi-modules applications using parsley, I won't
> > > describe here what each module stands for but shortly, my shell
> > > loads my main module which loads my modular workspaces, I can even
> > > split my workspaces in components, I've librayries, one of them
> > > serves interfaces, an other one domain objects, etc.., because I
> > > use parsley, all the instanciation process is DI, the communication
> > > is also managed thru parsley.
> > > I mean, I can do the same thing than Gavity does without all xml
> > > files it requires for example.
> > > Then, maybe I missed something you can explained to me, what is the
> > > point here ?
> > > Frédéric Thomas
> > >
> >
> >
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